Lok Sabha election results 2024: NDA crosses majority mark as per EC trends; INDIA bloc above 200

As the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha polls is underway the Bharatiya Janata Partyled NDA crossed the majority mark in early leads and the INDIA bloc above 200 defying all exit poll predictions reported news agency ANIBJP is ahead in 236 seats while its broader coalition NDA is leading in 299 seats The majority mark is 272Meanwhile INDIA bloc is leading on 226 seats and others on 18 seatsCongress is leading on 92 seats Samajwadi Party on 34 DMK on 21 seats Trinamool Congress on 30 Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray on 10 seats NCP SP on eight seats CPIM on five seats and Aam Aadmi Party on three seats reported ANIINDIA bloc is making strong gains in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra and is leading on the most number of seatsIn Maharashtra the Maha Vikas Aghadi of Congress Shiv Sena UBT and NCP SC are ahead in 30 seats while the BJPled Mahayuti is leading in 17 out of 40 seatsCongresss Rahul Gandhi is leading from Rae Barelis seat while Bharatiya Janata Partys BJP Dinesh Pratap Singh is trailingPrime Minister Narendra Modi is leading followed by the Congress Ajay Rai from VaranasiLok Sabha election results 2024 Elections for 543 seatsAround 642 million people voted in Lok Sabha elections held over seven phases in a mammoth sixweek period The counting of votes began starting with postal ballot papers amid tight security The counting for State Legislative Assemblies of 175 Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and 147 Assembly constituencies in Odisha and results of bypolls in 25 Assembly constituencies also began reported ANIThe Lok Sabha elections for 543 seats of the lower house were held across seven phasesThe Bharatiya Janata Party is eyeing a third straight term in power while the Opposition under the umbrella of the INDIA bloc is seeking to wrest power from the ruling partyLok Sabha election results 2024 Exit pollsMost exit polls predicted a straight term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi with quite a few of them projecting a twothirds majority for the ruling BJPled National Democratic Alliance NDA The Congress party and its allies dismissed the exit polls as orchestrated and a work of fantasy asserting that the opposition INDIA bloc will form the next government at the CentreStrict security has been put in place for the smooth conduct of counting of votes for over 8000 candidates in this general electionTwo polls predicted the BJP would also improve its numbers from the 303 seats it won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls In the 2019 elections NDA wrested 353 seats of which the BJP won 303 alone The Oppositions UPA got only 93 seats of which the Congress got 52Lok Sabha election results 2024 BJP wins Surat Lok SabhaEven before the counting of the votes the Bharatiya Janata Party won one seat of Surat Lok Sabha reported ANIEarlier on April 22 Mukesh Dalal won the election unopposed Congress nominee Nilesh Kumbhanis nomination was rejected His candidacy was rejected because of alleged discrepancies in the signatures of the proposers reported ANIThe Lok Sabha elections for 543 seats of the lower house were held across seven phases The counting of votes will take place on Tuesday June 4With inputs from ANI